These past two weeks, we have been so busy! Our mission president asked us to help the two branches and to bring more members to attend sacrament meeting and to also bring less active members to come back to church. We love visiting the less active member families. We do that each day. They live far a way from one another, so it is hard for them to visit each other. However we did and we are trying to get them more involved. With the travel, we have had some car issues. Our car has had a heating problem. In Thailand all cars must have water added in the engines often. This should be fixed this Monday.
We also went to mission zone conference. It is every 6 weeks. We learn from our mission president how we can all be better missionaries. It takes about one hour to travel to Khonkean from Udonthani. We will have our Senior Missionary conference in Chang Mai in May.
Our proselyting each day starts from 11 am to 8 pm. Each morning we use that time to visit inactive members and after 4 pm, we start looking for new families to teach. We approach them by talking about their teenager's plan for their future. For the most part, they tend to open doors for us as we show them we want to help them with their children. We focus on topics like how to avoid alcohol, stop smoking, and so forth. This then leads us to teaching the Plan of Salvation and making next appointment. We need to always be aware of our less active brothers and sisters around us. If we don't, we can lose them easily. We have seen how the world can help others forget the importance of the gospel as they look to others for guidance. This is how they get lost again. We should always keep our hearts open to those around us and reach out. A little each day helps them come back.
It has been great these past two weeks for meeting new family to teach.
We also do a lot of community services for members and nonmembers. We help other member move into new apartment and clean their yards. We see the work progressing and we love it! Please feel free to write to us. We would love to hear from you! We love you and we love this work!
After the Flooding, Huge Humanitarian Effort
In Front of The New Chapel in Bangkok
In the Chapel putting Relief Bags together
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It was a great time at Ching Mai that all Seniors there, and would like to post their names as follows; Elder and Sister Oldham, Elder and Sister Cook, Elder and Sister Facer, Elder and Sister Gonzales, Elder and Sister Greenwood, Elder and Sister Hatch, Elder and Sister Jones, Elder and Sister Laing, Elder and Sister McPhie, Elder and Sister Sitivong, Elder and Sister Snow, Elder and Sister Wasson, Elder and Sister Jones, Elder and Sister Meakley
Mom and Dad, we love you!
ReplyDeleteDear MTC Friends,
ReplyDeleteCan you believe that we have been in the mission field for 6 weeks now?
We hope you are all doing well.We are enjoying our experiences here in San Jose, Mindoro. There are 4 branches in our district and we love working with the young Elders. They are awesome! I don't think you could find better Elders anywhere in the church. On Thursday we went through our first transfers and it was so hard. These Elders have become like our family. Two weeks ago we had our first Zone and District Conference and it was a great experience. President and Sister Ho Ching and an office couple came to Mindoro and were here for 3 days. I was ask to conduct a class or the district and branch Relief Society presidencies. Elder Price an assistant to the president translated for me. That was a fun experience.
The members here are so new in the church that they need a lot of guidance. I will be following up with visits to individual presidencies over the next 2 weeks. We go out with the Elders from each district once a week to visit investigators, new converts and less active. The Elders mostly teach and we bear our testimonies . The language is still coming very slowly. I am also teaching English and piano at the Magsaysay branch every Thursday. One of my students is the branch president. In the morning we will be flying to Manila for a senior missionary conference. There are 30 senior missionary couples in the mission. While we are there we get to attend a session at the temple and pick up some supplies to help in our mission responsibilities and food items that we can't purchase here. We would love to hear from each of you and know how your missions are going. We think of you often.
Take care,
Elder and Sister Baker
Quezon Citiy Mission